Re: DES-Busting Screen Savers?

I have often thought that in spite of the raw numbers of commercial Windows platform, the freely redistributable distributed computation harnesses often end up doing much "more" of the computation. If this is the case, it would seem that some sort of Java VM system--such as that which exists in all Netscape 3.0 with JRI--would be the more natural "target" for development efforts. The recent licensing agreements from JavaSoft for JDK source make me nervous about the use of Java though. Can anybody point to a source which details Hardware/Software combinations used in distributed cracks? Maybe I can put some numbers together. -- "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now."